U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska August 19, 1903, No. 55 (Mason City & F D. R Co. v. Union Pac. R. Co.)

MUNGER, District Judge.

By an act of Congress of date July i, 1862 (12 Stat. 489, c. 120), the Union Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated with authority to construct and operate a line of railroad from a point to be fixed by the President of the United States on the western boundary of the state of Iowa to the western boundary of the state of Nevada, which act was amended by Congress July 2,